A legislator of the ruling Biju Janata Dal was booked in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district after a woman alleged that he raped her, police said Tuesday. The incident took place Jan 3 in block headquarters town of Updala, around 230 km from here, but came to light only after police registered a complaint against the legislator […]
A rolling stone gathers no moss. So goes the old adage. But the human resource managers can’t agree more even today, a study suggests. According to the research by Robert Half, a premier US-based staffing agency, employers tend to term the employees “job hoppers” if they have changed five or more jobs in 10 years […]
The Delhi Police Tuesday tried to persuade Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal twice to change his protest venue. However, he refused to budge, officials said. “We have spoken to Kejriwal twice, and tried to persuade him to shift the protest base to Jantar Mantar as, like here, Section 144 is not implemented in that area,” Deputy […]
Afghanistan’s human rights situation regressed in key areas in 2013, increasing uncertainty about the country’s future, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in its World Report 2014. Government policies on human rights were negatively affected by the end-2014 deadline for the withdrawal of international combat forces and the negotiations over US troop presence after 2014. Human […]
Bangladesh tumbled backward on human rights in 2013 as the government engaged in a harsh crackdown on members of civil society, the media and political opposition, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2014 released Tuesday. The authorities often employed violent and illegal measures against protesters, and failed to initiate any investigations into credible […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday said his protest was indefinite and threatened to fill the street with lakhs of people, if the government does not concede his demands. “I said 10 days, but it was a way of saying that the protest is indefinite. If the central government does not agree to our demands […]
Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the civil war that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. As the UN and international condemnation escalated, human rights activists and journalists critical of the government continued to face intimidation and threats, it said in its World […]
More than two months after the Nov 19 elections to Nepal’s second Constituent Assembly, the new lawmakers were Tuesday administered oath by senior-most member Surya Bahadur Thapa. A total 575 lawmakers — elected directly under the first-past-the-post system and selected as per the proportional representative electoral system — took the oath from Thapa, a former […]
Nepal saw new setbacks in efforts to end impunity for perpetrators of wartime abuses over the last year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in its World Report 2014. The newly elected Constituent Assembly should take immediate steps to implement the 2006 peace agreement and to provide justice for victims of serious human rights violations during […]
The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear two PILs seeking action against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti for creating chaos in the heart of the capital by going on in an unprecedented 10-day sit-in protest. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam said they will hear the […]